Remember the Public Defender that got caught lying about being a lawyer?

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Ashley Crawford twice failed the ethics portion of the bar exam she needed to pass to practice law in Louisiana. And twice she claimed much higher, passing scores to get a job representing indigent criminal defendants in Orleans Parish, according to new court records.

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Problems for Crawford began in 2017 when she passed the academic part of the bar exam but fell five points short of the 80 she needed to pass the ethics portion, AG investigator Marc Amos wrote in an affidavit accompanying the arrest warrant.

When the state bar admissions committee informed Crawford she had failed the so-called Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination, she wrote back that she “was under the impression that she passed the MPRE portion with a grade of 95,” even supplying a screenshot of that score on the online account she maintained with the exam’s administrator.

The committee double-checked Crawford’s score, verified the 75 was correct, and on Oct. 13, 2017, sent her an email saying she would not be admitted to the Louisiana Bar Association, Amos wrote.

Crawford later contacted the committee and told members she had passed the MPRE a year later, in August 2018, with a score of 99, court documents said. But a 99 was “unobtainable and impossible to achieve” on that test, and she actually performed worse than the first time, getting a 69, Amos alleged in his affidavit.

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